Gate.



No. 821,798. PATENTED MAY 29, 1906.

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No. 821,793- PATENTED MAY 29, 1906. J. FEARS.

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APPLICATION FILED 0OT.6. 1906.

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UN PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN FEARS, OF rinrsoivfTE ns-AssIeNoR or ONE-THIRD TO JAMES F. CARTERAND ONE-THIRD To L. BUssEY, OF TIMPSON, TEXAS.

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latented. May 29, 1906.

Application filed October 6, 1905. Serial No. 281,691-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN FEARS, a citizen of the United States, residingat Timpson, in the county of Shelby and State of Texas, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Gates, of which the following isa specification.

This invention embodies improvements in gates, and relates particularlyto the provision of special operating mechanism for opening and closingthe gate, as will be more fully disclosed hereinafter.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and alsoto acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means foreffecting the result reference is to be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of agate embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view ontheline X X of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

In the drawings the numeral 1 denotes the gate, and the same may be ofany suitable construction embodying, preferably, the vertical end bars 2and the longitudinal bars or rails 3. The gate 1 is of thehorizontallyswinging type and is suitably pivoted to the gatepost 4 inthe customary way. post 5 is provided with a catch-plate 6, adapted tobe engaged by a latch-bar 7, carried by the gate. The latch-bar 7 ishorizontally slidable on the gate 1 and is preferably supported upon oneof the longitudinal rails or bars 3 thereof. The outer end of thelatchbar 7 is adapted to engage the catch-plate 6, and the bar 7 isprovided with a longitudinal slot 8 at a point between its ends, aheaded guide-pin 9 projecting upwardly from the rail 3, carrying thelatch-bar and passing through the slot 8, so as to guide the member 7 1nits longitudinal movement. The end of the latch-bar 7 adjacent thepivoted end of the gate 1 passes through the vertical bar 2, which ishinged to the gate-post 1 so that said bar 2 coacts with the guide-pin 9in guiding the movement of the member 7 as it is engaged with anddisengaged from the catch-plate 6.

The latch-bar 7 is rovided with an enlargement 10, near the inner endportion A latch between the enlargement 10 and the vertical bar 2 of thegate, which is hingedly connected with the post 4. The spring 11surrounds the end portion of the latch-bar 7 and said spring normallycoacts with the member 7 to hold the latter in engagement with thecatchplate 6.

The operating mechanism, by which both the gate 1 and the latch-bar 7are operated, includes the provision of supporting-posts 12, which arelocated upon opposite sides of the gate-post 4 some distance from thegate. The supporting-posts 12 carry suitable levers 13, connected byrods 14 with a vertical crank-shaft 15, mounted on the gate 1. Thecrank-shaft 15 is journaled in the rail or bar 3 just above that uponwhich the latch-bar 7 is slidably mounted, and projecting from thecrankshaft 15 is a crank-arm 16, to which the rods 14 are directlyattached at one end. The arm 16 projects from the upper end of the shaft15, and from the lower end of said shaft project theoppositely-extending lugs 17, said lugs being arranged in the opening 10of the latch-bar 7. When the crank-arm 16 is actuated by the lever 13upon one side of the gate, the shaft 15 will be turned and one of thelugs 17 will engage the side of the openin 10 adjacent the spring 11,and by so doing t e latch-bar 7 will be moved longitudinally against thetension of the spring 11, and thereby disengaged from the latch-plate 6.The pull upon the crank-arm 16, which causes actuation of thelatch-bar7, as above described, also pulls the gate open as soon as the latch-barhas been disengaged from the latch-post.

In general operation it is designed that the supporting-posts 12 be soarrangedu on opposite sides of the gate that the passerytraveling eitheron foot, in a vehicle, or otherwise can readily grasp one of the levers13 as he approaches the gate, and by actuating the same he will pullupon the rod 14, connected therewith. The crank-shaft 15 will beactuated by such movement of the'rod 14, the latch-bar 7 will bedisengaged-from the catchplate 6, and the gate 1 will simultaneouslyswing open, permitting thepasser-by to pass therethrough. Having passedthrough the gate, the passer-by grasps the lever 13 on this side andactuating the same will force the gate closed in a manner which will bereadily obvious.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new 1s Incombination, a gate embodying longitudinal bars or rails, a latch-post,a latch-bar slidably mounted for movement longitudinally on one of thelongitudinal rails of the gate, a'spring coacting with the latch-bar tonormally hold the same in engagement with the latch-post, the latch-barbeing rovided with an opening at a point in its ength, a crank-shaftextended at an angle to the latch-bar and mounted on the gate, oppo=sitely-pr0j ecting lugs extending from the crank-shaft andoperating inthe openingof the latch-bar,- supporting-posts on opposite sides'of thegate, operating mechanism on said supportingosts and connected with thecrank-shaft of t e gate, and guide means for guiding the latch-bar inits movement.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN FEARS. [L. s.] Witnesses:

W. F. ANDRnWs, B. J. HAWTHORN.

